The following table contains 19 characters with the same phonetic element. notice that the pronunciation is no longer exactly the same - some are qing and some are jing - and that the tones vary. The other part of the character is the radical (indicated in parentheses underneath). Note that these are all traditional characters.
http://present.me/view/1744-study-chinese-phonetic-elements
The following table contains 19 characters with the same phonetic element. notice that the pronunciation is no longer exactly the same - some are qing and some are jing - and that the tones vary. The other part of the character is the radical (indicated in parentheses underneath). Note that these are all traditional characters.
Flip through the following book. Look at the component in each character that is the same; that is the phonetic element. (We are not now concerned with what each one sonds like.) The other part of the character is the radical.
http://www.wobook.com/WBGT1nZ5if07/Phonetic-Elements-in-Chinese-Characters.html
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